Ahmed H. Sameh

Samuel D. Conte Professor (1997)

Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1968.

Ahmed Sameh is the Head, and Samuel D. Conte Professor of Computer Science at Purdue University, West Lafayette. He joined Purdue in January, 1997, after being the Head of Computer Science at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, and the holder of the William Norris Chair in Large-Scale Computing, and prior to that the Director of the Center for Supercomputing Research and Development at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His current research interests include numerical linear algebra, and the design and performance analysis of parallel numerical algorithms.

Sameh received his B.Sc. from the University of Alexandria, Egypt in 1961, M.S. from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1964, and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois (U-C) in 1968, all in Civil Engineering (Structural Mechanics). He was a faculty member of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois (U-C) from 1968 to 1991.

He is a member of ACM, and SIAM, a senior member of IEEE, and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Projects:

• Direct Simulation of the Motion of Particles in Flowing Liquids
• High Performance Computing for Large Dynamical Systems

Honors and Awards:

• Phi Kappa Phi; Sigma Xi
• Fulbright Fellow, 1963-1964
• List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students: Fall `74, Fall `75, Fall `78, Spring `80, Spring `81, Spring `82, Fall `82, Spring `83.
• Appointed an Associate in the Center for Advanced Study on a full-time basis for two semesters of the 1991-92 academic year. (Declined in order to accept position of Head of Computer Science at the University of Minnesota.)
• William Norris Chair in Large Scale Computing, 1991-1992, 1993-1996.
• Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1993-present.

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